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:The entries which include War Diary in the individual entry are from IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3001. War diary, Army Headquarters India, Indian Expeditionary Force 'A' [France]. IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3086-3149; IE Force 'B' and ‘C’ [East Africa] IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3150-3222; IE Force 'D' [Mesopotamia] IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3223-3892, including IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3788 A table of the contents of the war diaries of the Mesopotamian Campaign; IE Force 'E'/'E' & 'G'/Egypt and F. IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3893-3950; IE Force 'G' [Mediterranean] IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3951- 3953; Aden Force IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3954-4056; India, Afghan War IOR/L/MIL/17/5/4057-4065; India, Frontier Operations IOR/L/MIL/17/5/4066-4121; Persia IOR/L/MIL/17/5/4122-4223.
:Some of these volumes are Indian Army Casualty Returns, explained in the British Library article [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2014/09/finding-indian-soldiers-who-served-in-world-war-one.html "Finding Indian soldiers who served in World War One"]
*The Military Department Library also contains items relating to the First World War catalogued according to regions including [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/2c7b217f2049d30b-78021c3f-4c2d4f8e-b617bedb-e55a03fd22c6 '''917bda536a22 Mesopotamian Campaign] IOR/L/MIL/17/15/65 to IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41-138'''] Iraq (1914-1944).
*''History of the Great War based on official documents by direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence''. Consists of 108 volumes published 1920-1949. For details of the different volumes, refer External links below, Some volumes are available online, refer Historical books online below.
*''An account of the operations of the 18th (Indian) Division in Mesopotamia, December 1917 to December 1918, with the names of all the units which served with the division and a nominal roll of all the officers'' by Walter Edward Wilson-Johnston 1919.
*''The Railway Gazette Special War Transportation Number'', originally published in September 1920, as part of ''The Railway Gazette and Railway News''. Described at the time as ‘the first connected account’ of the role of railways and inland water transport in supporting the British military campaign during the Great War of 1914-18. Contains a wealth of detail on operations on most Fronts inc. the organisation of wartime transportation; statistics and Fronts, including Railway Operations in Macedonia, Mesopotamia, Palestine & East Africa. Available at the British Library as part of UIN: BLL01013904893 or in a 2013 reprint edition UIN: BLL01016871224. Also available in a reprint edition<ref> [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/railway-gazette-special-great-war-transportation-number/ ''Railway Gazette – Special Great War Transportation Number''] Naval & Military Press.</ref>.
*See also Temporary Commissions & Indian Army Reserve of Officers 1917-1921, above
*See also [[Indian Army]]
Some War Diaries, many of which are '''handwritten''', have been digitised and are available (on a pay basis) online from various sources: from the National Archives through the Discovery catalogue<ref>[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk Discovery catalogue]</ref> (download as one file, rather than page by page); from Naval and Military Archive (Western Front only)<ref>[http://www.nmarchive.com/search-the-war-diaries Naval and Military Archive]</ref>, part of Naval & Military Press, which also publishes print and DVD-ROM versions; and through Ancestry which contains two databases "UK, WWI War Diaries (France, Belgium and Germany), 1914-1920" and "UK, WWI War Diaries (Gallipoli and Dardanelles), 1914-1916", containing selected, and at times part, war diaries only.<ref>[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60779 UK, WWI War Diaries (France, Belgium and Germany), 1914-1920] consisting of WO 95/1096–3948 records. However, within this series, there appears to be a further selection of diaries available - not all are included. Also [http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60380 UK, WWI War Diaries (Gallipoli and Dardanelles), 1914-1916] consisting of WO 95/4263-4359 records. Similarly, not all diaries within this range may have been included. Ancestry.</ref><ref> stiletto_33853
[httphttps://1914-1918www.invisionzonegreatwarforum.com/forumsorg/topic/257648-ancestry-vs-national-archives/?do=findComment&comment=2606479 Ancestry vs National Archives] ''Great War Forum'' 26 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 201828 November 2020. Ancestry diaries may have large parts (many months) missing
compared to TNA files</ref> (Download page by page). The Ancestry databases also contain War Diaries for some Indian, Australian, New Zealand, and other regiments.
<br>'''Transcribed''' (the handwriting has been deciphered for you!) (series title) ''Gallipoli Diaries'' edited by Martin Gillott, publisher Great War Diaries and some Western Front (series title) ''Great War Diaries'' from the same editor/publisher, both series for British and some Indian Army regiments, are available through Amazon.co.uk <ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Diaries++Adjutant+Gillott&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ADiaries++Adjutant+Gillott ''Gallipoli Diaries'' and ''Great War Diaries''] amazon.co.uk</ref> in Kindle editions which have a Search facility (anyone with Kindle Unlimited can read them for free). (Download of a free Kindle App is available onto a PC, Mac or tablet - you don't need Kindle).
*[https://archive.org/details/womenasarmysurg00murr ''Women as Army Surgeons; being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914-October 1919''] by Flora Murray 1920 Archive.org.
*''An Equal Burden: The Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War'' by Jessica Meyer 2019. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2X2IDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Google Books version], [https://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=1004364 ''Open Access'' oapen.org version].
*[https://archive.org/details/fiftythousandmil00wall ''Fifty Thousand Miles on a Hospital Ship''] by “The Padre” [Charles Steel Wallis] 1917 Archive.org. The hospital ship that Padre Wallis joined in 1915 was most likely the 'Goorkha'.<ref>frev. [httphttps://1914-1918www.invisionzonegreatwarforum.com/forumsorg/topic/253987-norwegian-matron-on-indian-hospital-ship/?do=findComment&comment=2569706 Norwegian Matron on Indian Hospital Ship] ''Great War Forum'' 3 October 2017. Retrieved 4 October 201728 November 2020.</ref> She was then an Indian Hospital Ship staffed by doctors from the Indian Medical Service, although subsequently became a British Hospital Ship.
*[https://archive.org/details/IanHay1951ArmyNursing ''One Hundred Years of Army Nursing : The Story of the British Army Nursing Service from the time of Florence Nightingale to the present day''] by John Hay Beith 1953 Archive.org. Contains chapters on WW1.
*[https://archive.org/details/observationsofor00muir/page/n6 ''Observations of an Orderly; some glimpses of life and work in an English War Hospital''] [3rd London General Hospital] by L-Cpl Ward Muir, RAMC(T). 1917 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/observations_of_an_orderly_0909_librivox Librivox audio version] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishrailwaysw00mcke ''British Railways and the War''], by F. A. McKenzie 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/waradministrati00parmgoog ''War administration of the railways in the United States and Great Britain''] by Frank Haigh Dixon and Julius H. Parmelee. 1918 Archive.org. A publication of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of Economics and History. A volume in the series ''Preliminary Economic Studies of the War''.
:Available at the British Library, not known to be available online, ''The Railway Gazette Special War Transportation Number'', originally published in September 1920. For more details see [[First World War#British Library holdings|British Library holdings]], above.
*''British Railways and the Great War ; organisation, efforts, difficulties and achievements'' by Edwin A Pratt 1921. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924092566128/page/n5 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924092566136/page/n5 Volume II] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/riseofrailpoweri00prat/page/n7 ''The rise of rail-power in war and conquest, 1833-1914, with a bibliography''] by Edwin A Pratt 1915 Archive.org
*[https://humanities-digital-library.org/index.php/hdl/catalog/book/civilian_specialists ''Civilian Specialists at War: Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War''] by Christopher Phillips 2020. Click on “Open Acess” for whole book. Download available. University of London Press Open Access.
====In the Air====
*''The War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force''. Volume I by Walter Raleigh 1922. Volumes II-VI by H A Jones 1928-1937. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingst01rale Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto02rale Volume II] (including Gallipoli), [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto03rale Volume III] (inc East Africa), [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto04rale Volume IV], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V] (inc Egypt/Palestine, Mesopotamia, Macedonia), [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale Volume VI] (inc Palestine, Mesopotamia, India) Archive.org. Includes Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS).
